Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Pace Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 17, 1953 .-g***' i 't FARMS AND FOLKS » *4^ ' * By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Cattle Prices West of our cattle business isj new here. Most of pur pastures and cattle have come, in the last 20 f year?, during which we’ve exper- jenced Nothing much but rising prices. Wars wiped out the expect ed low spots During a time like, that, it was, hard to'16se on cattle". And many, beginners did well. . Those who study history knowj that cattle prices, like other farm; price?, bobble up and down rather regularly along through the years during anything like normal times. But the times have not been normal, since we started developing the cat-j lit business in earnest here. And| now we sec the first serious dip in; prices in 20 years. That’s a new! experience for us. We must learn| o (cce with it. Let s look at cattle prices back a oxce. In 1924 thev averaged 5.84c ; pound. In'5 years, to 1929, they had- gone up 62 per cent to 9.47c, Ihen in the following 5 years they ad dropped 52 per cent to 4.13c., !:. 5 more year> they had rebound-J d 75 per cent to 7.14c in 1939. And] fn-r. 1934 the spiral upward has; been almost steady. By 1944 they | ad advanced 43 per cent from that 1939 figure to’10.80c. And by 1949, :ht\ had advanced 83 per cent from : ha! to an average price of 19.80c. Then by 1951 they had gone up 43 per cent from that to 28.70c. It’s important to remember this: somebodv's going to grow the cattle needs of this country. We are sure we have some advantages here. The fellows who have the natural ad vantages and who do the best job; are sure to be the ones who will continue to grow the cattle wej need » * * Little Things Grow Big Some folks with the know-how irom the Georgia Experiment Sta tion saw possibilities in a new crop s6me years agp. They started the Cherokee Products Co., at Haddoc, Ga. They have developed a pi rn iento pepper canning business from a mere apron full to a big business. 1 I A group of counties of our Lp Country here now grow these pep pers on contract for them. Large trailer trucks come weekly through the season to each county on deliv ery day, get the peppers, pay for *bem, and haul them to the Haddoc plant. . ! The county agents tell me their folks like to grow this crop, even though it has been awful dry for the past 3 summers we’ve been growing them. The past summer about a half dozen farmers irrigated them. Results were excellent, the, agents tell me. New crop! We need ’em. And j a goodly soil and climate make a lot of ’em possible here, too. • • • Wild Gms« at Clemson I’ve told you often of the wild CREDITORS' NOTICE All persons having claims against he estate of Claude Vernon Mon- tx», deceased, are hereby notified o file same duly verified, with the’ mdersigned and those indebted to aid estate will please make pay- rent likewise. MINNIE MORFOE. Clinton, S. C., CLAUDE B. MONROE, Newberry, S. C., Executors of Estate. Dec. 8, 1953 3p-24 FINE FURNITURE' Down Through the Years T. E. i . Jones & Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina geese at the Gaddy pond at Anson- ville, N. C. Now I’m delighted to tell you that a refuge for wild ducks and geese has been established on Clemson! property at Lake Isaqueena. This was done over a year ago, and last winter several hundred ducks and a: number of wild geee found this safe; sanctuary and made it home. Wadyd McFall, Clemson graduate and wildlife expert, is in charge of, it under cooperative arrangement; with the U. S. and State Wildlife; folks. He tells me the migratory i waterfowl are making use of it, again this winter. In that same area the State and Federal folks released a batch of wild turkeys a year ago that seenx to be thriving. ! It is well to remember that 20 years ago Mr. Gaddy at Ansonville had 9 wild geese to come to his 1 farm pond. Rather than shoot ’em, he fed and protected ’em. They have kept coming back each winter and now there are over 12,000. Such a possibility has Clemson in the mak ing. A feast for the eyes! Over, 29,000 went to see them intimately, there at the Gaddy pond the past winter. More are streaming there now. I wonder if there are not others who will, with sincerity and with out guile, furnish these beautiful wild creatures a safe spot to light, rest, and feed? They need it down here in the temperate zone, when their far-northern haunts are lock- 1 ed in winter. If you invite them| and never break their faith, you can, likely have a wonderland made out of your pond area too. • • • Boys Are That Way When they opened the hog up at! butchering time, we were right] there, getting in the "way, trying toj see everything. As soon as the insides came out| in a tub, some of the women folks took them down behind the plum' thicket. There they cleaned the in-; testines for stuffing sausage and puddin’ in. And the stomach and larger parts went for chitterlings. My, how we liked them! Creamed like chicken and served with grits,; they were wonderful. And to this day,- I know of nothing better. We spoke in turns for the blad der. It was highly treasured. We would insert a cane in it and blow! it up. That was the only sort of; ballbon we ever had. We would! put a few cowpeas in it, let it dry inflated, and then it would rattle like a drum when we agitated it. About this time they had split the hog down the back with a sharp axe. We hadn’t heard of meat saws then. The best axemen bragged about being able to split the mar row all the way down the back bone, as the hog hung from the limb of the old apple tree there in our back yard. It was really getting interesting to us then, for it was nearing the eating stage. They would cut thin strips of the light tender loin and give it to us to cook over the coals there on sharp sticks. Frequently we would hold it too close and it or the stick would catch fire. If it dropped off, we’d scrape it out of the ashes and try again. With a little salt sprinkled on, we thought that roasted pork was grand. Head, liver, skins and craps were all put in a pot, with a bag of rice to boil' for liver puddin’. Trimmings of lean were ground for sausage, and the fat was ground for lard The trimmed hams, shoulders, and sides were salted heavy and placed; on papers on a shelf in the smoke house. And next week now we will finish this butchering up- Rekindling Embers n the South By THOMAS R. WARING Editor of The News and Courier Washington, Dec. 7—What the Radicals failed after Appomattox to do to the Prostrate South, the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People today came asking the Supreme Court to de cree. South Carolina’s answer, present ed in a masterful speech by John W. Davis, was that the state and not the courts have full power to care for the education and welfare of its children. The state, he said, came before the court “not as Thad Ste vens would have wished in sack cloth and ashes,” but in the confi dence that the “happiness, progress and welfare of these children, is best promoted in segregated schools.” In an hour-long argument de fending the state's separate school system for white and Negro pupils, Davis started with references to the debate in Congress leading up to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, on which the Negroes base their case. He said that Sum ner, Stevens and the other Radicals did not control Congress, that sep arate schools even in the darkest day^s of Southern defeat were ac cepted, and that the 39th Congress never went as far as the Radicals wanted even when the “flames of rr-p, partisan passion were' burning over the ashes of the Civil War.” And he concluded with advice to the Negroes not to be misled, to lose the bone it had in its mouth as the dog was in Aesop’s fable, in an attempt to grab a bigger bone| it thought it. saw reflected in the| water. ,T Compared with the vague and legalistic arguments presented by the Negroes for abolishing a pat tern of separate schools that surviv- j ed more than 75 years till the cur*! rent challenge. Mr. Davis’ address, seemed clear and forceful to hisj listeners in the small and crowded courtroom. Even with acoustics so poor that reporters had difficulty hearing the exchange of questions and answers: between justices and lawyers, hisj voice was as plain as the facts he j, presented. Mr. Davis annihilated the attor-j ney general’s written brief, present ed as “a friend of the court,” with the terse comment that its conclus ion was “lame and impotent.” He referred to Thad Stevens, the man who most hated the South and tried hardest to humiliate the white people, as the ‘ most unlovely char acter in American history.” In the august surroundings of the nation’s highest court, a visitor has! a feeling of oppression from a stream of lawyer’s words. All these complex arguments pro and con seem far removed from the teem ing Black Belt of the Deep South. The well-dressed audience was noni segregated. The exchanges be tween counsel were couched in po lite language befitting the highest court ir; the nation. But the taut; emotions that once divided that na-; tion in warfare were sensed even | through the legal amenities. Mr. Davis urged the court not to return to an experiment long since repudiated. He said it has more; hope of success now' than it did when Sumner and Stevens rattled the bones of civil strife. What may be the outcome could not be read in the faces of the nine jobed justices of the court. Future security of people in the 17 states where dwell 70 per cent of the American Negroes is being laid now in the lap of the court. If the em ber that for three quarters of a cen- FURNITURE BRUISES Soak a piece of blotting paper in warm water. Place it over the bruise and apply a warm iron until all moisture is gone. Repeat if necessary. j THE ALARM CLOCK The alarm clock is a great help if it is set for the time that bread CITATION FOR LETTERS o¥ ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. By J. H. Wasson, FTobate Judge: WHEREAS, John David Word, Jr., made suit to me to grant Cora Lee Reed Word Letters of Adminis tration of the Estate and effects of John David Word, Sr. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kin dred and Creditors of the said John David Word, Sr., deceased, that they be ahd appear before me, in die Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on December 29, 1953, next, af ter publi<$ition hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to how cause, if any they have, why the said Admin istration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 11th day of December, Anno Domini, 1953. J. HEWLETTE WASSON, 2c-w-24 J. P. L. C. pr cake is to be taken from the ov en, vegetables to be put on the range, and similar things so easily forgotten. HEADACHE A home remedy that often re lieves the headache is to place a pinch of salt on the tongue and allow it to dissolve. In about ten minutes, take a drink of cold water. 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